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1After this I looked up and in my sacred vision I saw an opening into the spirit-world above. I heard the voice of the one who had spoken to me at first. The voice that sounded like an eagle bone whistle.[#4:1 Lit. trumpet , or in Hebrew shofar , meaning “ram’s horn”]
“Come up here,” the voice said, “and I will show you the things that will take place following what you have seen and heard .”
2Right then, in my sacred vision , I was taken up through the opening into the spirit-world above. I looked and saw a seat of honor in the world above—and someone was seated on it!
3The one who sat on it had the appearance of a fiery red but clear crystal stone. A rainbow that looked crystal green encircled the seat of honor.[#4:3 Lit. jasper and carnelian , which are crystalline jewels. Carnelian is clear and sometimes has a red cast. Jasper is red.; #4:3 Lit. like an emerald , a clear, green-colored jewel]
4Encircling the seat of honor were twenty-four elders sitting on twenty-four seats of honor. They wore pure white regalia and golden headdresses.
5From the seat of honor came flashes of lightning and rolling thunder. There were seven torches of fire burning before the seat of honor, which are the seven spirits of the Great Mystery.
6Before the seat of honor there was what looked like a great sea, smooth and crystal clear.
Four living spirit animals, with eyes in the front and back, closely encircled the seat of honor.
7The first spirit animal was like a lion. The second spirit animal was like a young bison. The third spirit animal had the face of a human being. And the fourth spirit animal was like a soaring eagle.
8These four spirit animals each had six wings and were covered with eyes all around and even under their wings. Day and night they never stop saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the all-powerful Great Spirit, One Who Is and Was and Is to Come!”
9-10The spirit animals give shining-greatness and honor and thanks to the one who sits in the seat of honor, all to the one who lived before all days and lives beyond the end of all days. Then the twenty-four elders humble themselves, remove their headdresses, and offer them to the one who sits on the seat of honor.
11“All honor belongs to you, O Great Spirit Chief,” the twenty-four elders say with one voice. “For you are the one who made everything there is. It is from your sacred vision that all things came into being and were created!”